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Auction History Result Lot #: #108 KING KONG Grauman's Theater program '33 Fay Wray!  Date Sold 12/18/2004Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. Appears in Vintage Hollywood Posters 8 CATALOG SOLD OUT The image at right appears in the auction catalog we published as shown above and was sold long ago and we do NOT have it available for purchase. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Program Booklet (measures 9 3/8" x 12 1/4"; 20 pages) (Learn More) King Kong, the classic 1933 Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack Africa New York City giant ape fantasy romantic love triangle adventure horror thriller ("'The most awesome thriller of all time' the one and only"; "Not beast.. Not human.... Not devil.. But all three magnified! Raging.. Roaring.. Crushing.. Killing.."; "Strangest story ever conceived by man!"; "Out-leaping the maddest imaginings! Out-thrilling the wildest thrills!"; "See the living, fighting monsters of Creation's dawn rediscovered in the world today!"; "See the death-fight between giant ape and prehistoric dinosaur... the most amazing combat since the world began!"; "See the ape as big as a battleship wrecking New York!"; "Unique..! Thrilling! Startling!"; "From an idea conceived by Edgar Wallace & Merian C. Cooper"; based on the story by Edgar Wallace, with incredible special effects by Willis O'Brien) starring Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong (as Carl Denham), Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher, and Sam Hardy NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this program was printed for the actual premiere of King Kong at the famed Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, and was distributed solely for the performance on "Friday Evening, March 24, 1933". The cover has a great embossed image of a row of chains over an angled Empire State Building. "Tipped in" (lightly glued at the top) to the inside front cover is a "Programme" page that lists what was shown that evening giving a scene-by-scene breakdown of the orchestral accompaniment to the movie, as well as credits for a "Chorus of Dusky Maidens", with credit for "Costumes by Western Costume Company", indicating the "Dusky Maidens" apparently performed with the orchestra in costume! The interior 20 pages have lots of great black and white photos from the movie and of the men who created it. Six of the photos are artwork images of the storyboards from the movie, there are pages of pictures of the stars, as well as the men who made the movie, including Max Steiner, Marian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Willis O'Brien, and many more. The final page has the most classic Kong image of all, the montage of Kong holding Fay Wray, looming hugely over the New York skyline, an image that (to the best of my knowledge) did not appear on any other 1933 advertising, but first appeared after this on a 1938 re-release lobby card. Not only is this a really wonderful book, filled with images likely available nowhere else, but it surely must be rare, given that it was printed for a single night's performance! Condition: fine. the program is in really wonderful condition! I can't imagine it was in much better condition on the day it was handed out over 70 years ago! Learn More about condition grades 
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